Slipping through

Late reaction to toxic oil imports by state Pollution Control Board (Read full article)

Development projects threaten Dehing Patkai sanctuary

National Board of Wildlife panel to visit the area to review proposals

Indonesia to dump hot mud in Java Sea

Challenges of hydrogen-fuelled vehicles

Loan for Peru's LNG project

Oil companies eye tribal territory in Peru

Supreme Court seeks status report on hazardous waste directives

The directives were issued by a monitoring committee appointed by the court on October 14, 2003

Grant to save Syrian seas

Will the Arctic be conquered?

Gas crisis hits Bangladesh

Coastal invasion

Oil waste litters Gujarat seafront

Study warns of a billion human deaths if global warming reaches or exceeds 2°C

Authors suggest aggressive energy policies to decrease carbon emissions, minimise loss of lives

Over 90 Tamil Nadu panchayats pass resolution against GM mustard

Letter urged the state government to write to the Union minister for environment, asking him to intervene and stop the planting of GM mustard in …

‘India not joining the Oil & Gas Methane Partnership is a missed opportunity’

Manfredi Caltagirone, head of the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), on the Methane Alert and Response System

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 10, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Wildlife board discovers it has no say

Though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at …

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South Asia

In Court

Unchecked tyre recycling units wreak environmental havoc

Only 46% of tyre pyrolysis oil units in the country comply with norms

Their place in the Sun...

Fenugreek relief

Provides a nasal gel for drug delivery

The 5 biggest threats to West Africa’s oceans — and what to do about them

Ocean produces over half of world’s oxygen, absorbs 50 times more carbon dioxide than atmosphere

COVID19: Green stimulus should step in to counter oil price crash

There is no inevitable link between oil prices and carbon emissions, a lot depends on responsible policy  

Himachal farmers have an affair with flowers

Farmers in Himachal Pradesh are ditching traditional food crops to grow aromatic plants that offer higher and assured returns